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He has been in the kick of a phase where he speculates a lot about how to make a Utopia, the benefits of eugenics and general themes of Justice in regards to what is best for society at the expense of personal freedom. (he isn't set in those ideas, just things he is working out in his head)

...it is really interesting to watch an intelligent kid start to form into a thinking adult.

Gabriel is very like me (actually we have the same personality type in the Meyer's-Briggs system, if you believe in that silliness) in the sense that he mulls ideas around without necessarily believing them, and voicing them is more a combination of getting a sounding board about them, and even devils advocating against his own ideas, than stating any solid opinion. Being proved wrong is the most interesting thing that can happen in conversation and is an instant way to win respect and further conversations.

I've taken a few tests at various times throughout the years and the results were different. Maybe the tests weren't good or maybe my personality wasn't 'complete' if that makes sense. I remember an ISFP result a few years ago (thanks to bookmarking websites), now I'm an ISTJ. Hm. I'd say the older result is more accurate.

I really don't think ISTJ fits you at all. They are extremely duty bound to the traditional rules of society and the way things ought to be based on those rules. You're love relationships alone go completely against their style, ISTJ would refuse to participate in the sorts of friendships and loveships you have regardless of their feelings.

ISFP or (I still think) ISFJ.

Of course, this is assuming any of it has any validity at all. I flip flop to opposite sides of whether it does all the time.

You're probably right with the ISFJ. I've just read a bit on the Perceptive, "works best close to deadlines". Not in a million years. I finished my BA thesis 3 months before it was due. And that's just one (extreme) example.

And you were very accurate :) I haven't really looked into personality tests too much, my area of interest is personality disorders.

Still pissed nobody's bothered to pirate the DSM-5 yet. I should probably just give up and read the 4, I even have it in Romanian. It's a scanned copy though, and I won't read 900 pages on the computer.

Jane Bradley's shorts collection Are we Lucky Yet? I first learned about her from her contribution to Noir at the Bar v2, which blew the rest of us out of the water. These are tales of women maybe looking for love, and finding sex and uncertainty, momentary doses of happiness as they get through this thing called life. Raw, realistic characters, with some great phrasing. And of course the obligatory throwdown at the Golden Corral.

I'm listening to Child of God by McCarthy and the narration is so annoying, especially the dialogue. It's really exaggerated hillbilly voices, not how his dialogue sounds in my head. It's almost goofy. I don't think i like audio books...

I don't, either, and I used to produce the things. Always directed my narrators not to do impressions in the dialogue, but merely to lilt their voice slightly just so the quoted stuff was distinguishable from the prose. Plus, yeah, I don't like actors' voices in my head, tainting my perception. (Good work if you can get it, though.) That's the one great advantage books have over other mediums is that it's a direct jack from the author's brain into yours via the page. No interpretive middlemen. You, the reader, are the projectionist.

Audiobooks are handy if you're a driver with a commute and need some passive entertainment. But I read three times faster by eye than someone can speak the words aloud, and I think that would test my patience, so I'd have to dial the speed up and then get annoyed by that, too.

I'm listening to Child of God by McCarthy and the narration is so annoying, especially the dialogue. It's really exaggerated hillbilly voices, not how his dialogue sounds in my head. It's almost goofy. I don't think i like audio books...

Some are good. Tina Fey and Anthony Bourdain read their own audiobooks. And they were great.

I guess that shouldn't be surprising though since both of them are obviously used to talking on TV.

I don't, either, and I used to produce the things. Always directed my narrators not to do impressions in the dialogue, but merely to lilt their voice slightly just so the quoted stuff was distinguishable from the prose. Plus, yeah, I don't like actors' voices in my head, tainting my perception. (Good work if you can get it, though.) That's the one great advantage books have over other mediums is that it's a direct jack from the author's brain into yours via the page. No interpretive middlemen. You, the reader, are the projectionist.

Audiobooks are handy if you're a driver with a commute and need some passive entertainment. But I read three times faster by eye than someone can speak the words aloud, and I think that would test my patience, so I'd have to dial the speed up and then get annoyed by that, too.

I drive anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes to work so it's good for that. That sounds like a fun job though. The guy reading Child of God way overdoes it. Ballard sounds like a perverted old woman and everyone else sounds like the goofy hillbilly from a Scooby Doo cartoon or something. Cormac is dark, everyone knows that. Cut out the corniness.

The Cost... seems interesting from what I read at amazon. i'll put it on my gr list.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters & Papers from Prison

not sure what to expect. I ordered it because Michael Newton had a quote from DB at the beginning of Waste Land. my son read a passage and told me it was incredibly sad. he sounded like he was going to cry when he said that. I told him was DB executed by Nazis for no reason other than they did not like him or his ideas.

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